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On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Manfred Spraul wrote:

| Andrew Morton wrote:
| >
| > Makes sense.  It would be nice to get this confirmed in
| > targetted testing ;)
|  >
| Not yet done.
|
| The right way to test it would be to collect data in kernel about
| alloc/free, and then run that data against both versions, and check
| which version gives less internal fragmentation.
|
| Or perhaps Bonwick has done that for his slab paper, but I don't have it :-(

Did you look at http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/bonwick.html
for it?

| * An implementation of the Slab Allocator as described in outline in;
| *      UNIX Internals: The New Frontiers by Uresh Vahalia
| *      Pub: Prentice Hall      ISBN 0-13-101908-2
| * or with a little more detail in;
| *      The Slab Allocator: An Object-Caching Kernel Memory Allocator
| *      Jeff Bonwick (Sun Microsystems).
| *      Presented at: USENIX Summer 1994 Technical Conference
| --

-- 
~Randy

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